From
A K Malhotra, Secretary of Bhavana U3A Lucknow. BHAVANA's Annual convention
was held at Lucknow on 21st March 2010 and the Guest of Honor was Mr.
Tom Holloway, Secretary-General World U3A, who specially flew in to attend
our convention and to give a multimedia presentation. A number of Senior
Citizens were honoured and felicitated on the occasion and many schemes
were launched for assistance to poor meritorious students and development
of rural villages. A full report may be downloaded
here

Next day on 22nd March,
a Technology session was organized for Bhavana's members. Tom Holloway
demonstrated and apprised participants of many tips and guidelines to
make the use of computers easy and interesting. The session was very absorbing
and educative.

At
the Open Learning Initiative of Carnegie-Mellon University you can get free
materials, activities and assessments for self-guided learning. These are
mostly in Science and Technology. See http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

Art/History
Groups: The site by Professor Christopher Witcombe at http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
is very well organised. It was recently selected by the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) for inclusion on EDSITEment as "one of the
best online resources for education in the humanities." He is producing
a series of podcasts called Art History in Just a Minute (through EwArt
Productions; also available through iTunes).

Bookgroups: - http://www.bookgroup.info
- is an independent site providing information for readers, book groups,
reading groups and book clubs. We aim to provide a book lovers' community
where you can find unaffiliated book reviews, literary news, interviews
with distinguished authors and keep up to date with literary festivals
and events.

There are ten games
in each language, each one focussing on a different topic. This page is
to support you in your language learning. From this page you can access
a range of fun, interactive language games so you can practise what you've
learnt.

Some
interesting figures that you should know:

In a country of 90
million (current estimate) older persons, 33% live below the poverty line,
90% are from the unorganized sector with no social security, and 73% are
illiterate & dependent on physical labour.

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